"And that was what was the galling thing for him. He always believed himself, when sober and not stoned, to be sane, entirely logical and rational. But he was now faced with a growing knowledge that, no matter how much he believed himself to be a loving, considerate and morally upright member of the human race, he almost certainly had a brief moment of madness and bludgeoned an innocent young girl to a pulp before callously tipping her semi-naked body into a hole in the ground gouged out with his bare hands."